Quotes about History

He captures memories because if he forgets them, it's as though they didn't happen.

I entreat my readers, besides the Bible and the Articles, to read history.

If books were judged by the bad uses man can put them to, what book has been more misused than the Bible?

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

I'll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years.

Down Cut Shin Creek: The Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky by Kathi Appelt and Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer.

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.